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Webster 1913 Edition


Fade

Fade

Adj.
[F., prob. fr. L.
vapidus
vapid, or possibly fr,
fatuus
foolish, insipid.]
Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.
[R.]
“Passages that are somewhat fade.”
Jeffrey.
His masculine taste gave him a sense of something
fade
and ludicrous.
De Quincey.

Fade

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Faded
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Fading
.]
[OE.
faden
,
vaden
, prob. fr.
fade
,
Adj.
; cf. Prov. D.
vadden
to fade, wither,
vaddigh languid
,
torpid
. Cf.
Fade
,
Adj.
,
Vade
.]
1.
To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
The earth mourneth and
fadeth
away.
Is. xxiv. 4.
2.
To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
“Flowers that never fade.”
Milton.
3.
To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
The stars shall
fade
away.
Addison
He makes a swanlike end,
Fading
in music.
Shakespeare

Fade

,
Verb.
T.
To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away.
No winter could his laurels
fade
.
Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition


Fade

FADE

,
Adj.
Weak; slight; faint. [Not in use.]

FADE

, v.i.
1.
To lose color; to tend from a stronger or brighter color to a more faint shade of the same color, or to lose a color entirely. A green leaf fades and becomes less green or yellow. Those colors are deemed the best, which are least apt to fade.
2.
To wither, as a plant; to decay.
Ye shall be as an oak, whose leaf fadeth. Is. 1.
3.
To lose strength gradually; to vanish.
When the memory is weak, ideas in the mind quickly fade.
4.
To lose luster; to grow dim.
The stars shall fade away.
5.
To decay; to perish gradually.
We all do fade as a leaf. Is. 64.
An inheritance that fadeth not away. 1Pet. 1.
6.
To decay; to decline; to become poor and miserable.
The rich man shall fade away in his ways. James 1.
7.
To lose strength, health or vigor; to decline; to grow weaker.
8.
To disappear gradually; to vanish.

FADE

,
Verb.
T.
To cause to wither; to wear away; to deprive of freshness or vigor.
No winter could his laurels fade.
This is a man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered.

Definition 2024


fade

fade

See also: fadé

English

Adjective

fade (comparative fader or more fade, superlative fadest or most fade)

  1. (archaic) Strong; bold; doughty

Etymology 2

From Middle English fade, vad, vade (faded, pale, withered, weak), from Middle Dutch vade (weak, faint, limp), from Old French fade (weak, witless), of obscure origin. Probably from Vulgar Latin *fatidus, from Latin fatuus (insipid).

Adjective

fade (comparative fader, superlative fadest)

  1. (archaic) Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.
    • Jeffery
      Passages that are somewhat fade.
    • De Quincey
      His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous.
Translations

Noun

fade (plural fades)

  1. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the right. See slice, hook, draw.
  2. A haircut where the hair is short or shaved on the sides of the head and longer on top. See also high-top fade and low fade.
  3. (slang) A fight
  4. (cinematography) A gradual decrease in the brightness of a shot (as a means of cutting to a new scene)
Translations

Verb

fade (third-person singular simple present fades, present participle fading, simple past and past participle faded)

  1. (intransitive) To become faded; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
    • Bible, Is. xxiv. 4
      The earth mourneth and fadeth away.
  2. (intransitive) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
    • Milton
      flowers that never fade
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess:
      The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.
  3. (intransitive) To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
    The milkman's whistling faded into the distance.
    • Addison
      The stars shall fade away.
    • Shakespeare
      He makes a swanlike end, / Fading in music.
    • 1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
      A strange thing was that Bovary, while continually thinking of Emma, was forgetting her. He grew desperate as he felt this image fading from his memory in spite of all efforts to retain it. Yet every night he dreamt of her; it was always the same dream. He drew near her, but when he was about to clasp her she fell into decay in his arms.
  4. (transitive) To cause to fade.
  5. (transitive, gambling) To bet against.
Synonyms
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Anagrams


Danish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -aðə

Adjective

fade

  1. definite of fad
  2. plural of fad

Noun

fade n

  1. plural indefinite of fad

Finnish

Etymology

< Swedish fader (father)

Noun

fade

  1. (slang) father

Declension

Inflection of fade (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
nominative fade fadet
genitive faden fadejen
partitive fadea fadeja
illative fadeen fadeihin
singular plural
nominative fade fadet
accusative nom. fade fadet
gen. faden
genitive faden fadejen
fadeinrare
partitive fadea fadeja
inessive fadessa fadeissa
elative fadesta fadeista
illative fadeen fadeihin
adessive fadella fadeilla
ablative fadelta fadeilta
allative fadelle fadeille
essive fadena fadeina
translative fadeksi fadeiksi
instructive fadein
abessive fadetta fadeitta
comitative fadeineen

Synonyms


French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *fatidus, blend of Latin fatuus and vapidus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fad/

Adjective

fade m, f (plural fades)

  1. tasteless, insipid
  2. boring; lukewarm

Synonyms

Noun

fade m (plural fades)

  1. share of loot / booty

Verb

fade

  1. first-person singular present indicative of fader
  2. third-person singular present indicative of fader
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of fader
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of fader
  5. second-person singular imperative of fader

German

Alternative forms

  • fad (particularly in southern Germany and Austria)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfaːdə/
  • Homophone: Pfade (only according to a regional pronunciation of this word)
  • Rhymes: -aːdə

Adjective

fade (comparative fader, superlative am fadesten or am fadsten)

  1. fade
    • 1922, Rudolf Steiner, Nationalökonomischer Kurs, Erster Vortrag
      Solch eine Volkswirtschaftslehre würde der Engländer fade gefunden haben. Man denkt doch über solche Dinge nicht nach, würde er gesagt haben.
      An Englishman would have thought of such an economical theory as bland. He would have said, "One doesn’t think about such things."

Declension